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The Heroic Legend of Arslan Season 2 Reveals Character Art for Hilmes




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Stark700



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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2016 6:46 am Reply with quote
Oh right, Silvermask. I almost forgot that they are the same person. I like the cape design shown here.
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Hameyadea



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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2016 7:26 am Reply with quote
And in the previous season he was called Hermes Razz

Looks nice.
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Fenrin



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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2016 1:50 pm Reply with quote
He's not called Hermes?! Is that official? Hermes is better imo.
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DangerMouse



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PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2016 2:38 pm Reply with quote
Hameyadea wrote:
And in the previous season he was called Hermes Razz

Looks nice.


I think about two-thirds through both the sub and dub they changed it, which was weird!

Fenrin wrote:
He's not called Hermes?! Is that official? Hermes is better imo.


Agreed. They should have kept it Hermes.
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Mayura_chan



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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2016 2:31 am Reply with quote
I also agree. hermes sounds much better! And I'm really really glad that they didn't change very much about his design!
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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2016 6:25 am Reply with quote
And yet Hermes is wrong. Hilmes/Hirmes is a correct one.
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WatchforMoons7



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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2016 11:29 am Reply with quote
I think another spelling is "Hilmiz"?
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Zhou-BR



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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2016 11:59 am Reply with quote
I thought "Hermes" was the official romanization, since that's how the streams' subtitles spell his name, but it always seemed wrong to me, because his name in katakana is spelled ヒルメス ("hirumesu"), not ヘルメス ("herumesu"). Personally, I'd go with "Hilmes".
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lazydude500



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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 1:58 am Reply with quote
I also agree Hermes is better than Hilmes.

FWIW the original OVA series of Arslan had a special video announcement for episode 5 (narrated by Dan Green) that said they were requested by the licensor to change the names to the following

Darun, Narcasse, Eram, Guibu

The new Arslan series is obviously a different committee but it just shows that Japanese still aren't masters of the English language so it be nice if there was consistency


I remember when Arslan Musou (Arslan: The Warriors of Legend) started revealing characters on the game's site there were also English names included. But again Japanese "Engrish" isn't always 100% reliable. I have no clue if Funimation noticed and then panicked but if they did based on the game's Engrish spellings it was the wrong decision IMO.

https://www.gamecity.ne.jp/arslan-musou/characters.html

Why stop at "Hilmes"

Xandes --> Zandeh & Esfan --> Isfan Rolling Eyes

A similar example would be some Heavy Object episodes where Funimation subs had names spelled a specific way but then for the next episode (and the broadcast dub) the names were spelled exactly as on the Heavy Object anime website

ANN review even talked about it...

animenewsnetwork.com/review/heavy-object/episode-19/.98893
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